PRO-neTworks forms a Folding@Home Team!
We are proud to announce the formation of a Folding@Home team for PRO-neTworks. Read more about the Folding@Home project below. If you are interested in joining up, our team number is 13790. All of our stats will be calculated and combined for our "Team Stats." This is a great oppurtunity to have your computer doing something while it would normally be sitting idle. If you have further questions about the project or how to join the PRO-neTworks team, contact me, Keoni, or Northweb Mike!

What are proteins and why do they "fold"?
Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out their biochemical function, they remarkably assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, remains a mystery. Moreover, perhaps not surprisingly, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious effects, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, and Parkinson's disease.

What does Folding@Home do?
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease.

How can you help?
You can help our project by downloading and running our client software. Our algorithms are designed such that for every computer that joins the project, we get a commensurate increase in simulation speed.

What have we done so far?
We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, Results section, or go directly to our press and papers page.

How many people have got this downloaded? I know Mike, Jim, John, Mac, and myself.... Lets get a count of what we are looking at here. Lets cure some diseases guys!

Yes lets go for a worthy cause, and don't worry it won't in any way interfere with your computer.

I'll have to check it out some more.

Shannon, I would love too, but it is already in use for medical research when I am not useing it. I have been envolved for about 3 months now.

Great cause and I wish you luck.

It's not counting the WU's that I've already had done. So why bother. I disconnected it this weekend. At least until they start counting. If it won't. It'll go bye-bye.

Maybe we should go to SETI and set it up instead.... SETI ran a LOT faster than folding does for me.

Any thoughts?

It doesn't matter which to me Shannon. I just don't like the fact that credit is not going where it should be. It irritated me to the point that I cut it off and blocked it.

I'm up for it if the others decide it too.

Ahem.....??

Right. I am awaiting a response as well